A client is asking me what I think should be done with .NET Windows Forms or similar, but maybe it's possible to do in Excel:
I already added some buttons and actions in a data sheet, but instead of showing all cells as shown by default by Excel, he wants the sheet to be inside an scrollable area. Something like this:
Is this possible? In case it's not clear enough, the scrollbars are just around the data rows and columns, not about the buttons and form items around the actual data
EIDT: I'll try to be more clear, I need all my Excel sheet and workspace to look like a Windows forms application, and the actual data (all the Excel cells) to be inside an scrollable area. I think it's not easy to understand because it's quite weird, as I sayed is my client who wants this.
BTW it wasn't a trial version, I payed for the wireframe software
You could put the buttons in the top row(s) and use the Freeze Pane option
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/freeze-or-lock-rows-and-columns-3439cfe6-010c-4d2d-a3c9-d0e8ba62d724?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
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Im trying to implement application wide copy and paste short cuts. (ctrl+C) etc.
The application consists of forms drawn in tab pages, and there are quite alot of forms. Ideally im after something (in the keypress of the main form) that would just see if the active control is a text box and If so pastes or copies text. Doing so on every text box on every form is unfeasible.
Another approach i guess would be to override the text box control application wide?
There must be an easy way to do this surely.
My googling so far hasn't come up with anything. Thankyou.
Ok; turns out there was a simple problem preventing this from working.
The EDIT menu in the menu bar on the main parent form was 'consuming' these keyboard short cuts.
Deleting this menu fixed the issue instantly.
I'm building a workbook and I created a "Menu" sheet that I want to serve as a thin navigation bar to launch all of the various macros/userforms that run in the workbook.
My plan is to have one window always set to the "Menu" sheet and just be a thin bar on the left side of the work area. The other window would take up the rest of the workarea and display all of the other various sheets.
How do I get the first window to always display the menu sheet and execute the macros launched from that window in the other window? Also, let me know if you have any better ideas to do what I'm trying to do.
I'm currently doing something similar. I took a different approach that you could adopt.
So I have a workbook with many sheets, and a main 'Control Panel' worksheet where the user inputs their data and run macro buttons to do lots of magical things(!)
I just placed all my macro buttons in Row 1 of the sheet and then used the "Freeze" Panes tool to freeze the top row. That way, if the user is on the Control Panel Sheet, the macro tools are always available regardless of where they are on the sheet.
I have set up the same buttons (which are contextually appropriate) on the other worksheets. So essentially the user can operate them from anywhere.
Just some food for thought :)
My company creates workbooks for clients that contain ActiveX controls (in most cases we need the extra functionality as compared to Form Controls). When we create them, they work fine on our end, but when we zip them up and send them to our clients, they open the WB and the ActiveX controls are no longer ActiveX controls, if you right click it, it behaves like a picture.
I feel like this is due to the MS ActiveX debacle. I have had them run the Fix It and making sure all the MS Office components were closed, and had them reboot, but still nothing.
I am pulling out my hair, and have asked on other forums if anyone else has had this issue, and what they have done to fix it. Thanks in advance.
Could you please check in client system whether macros and active x controls are enabled in Trust center setting?
https://support.office.microsoft.com/en-us/article/Enable-or-disable-macros-in-Office-documents-7b4fdd2e-174f-47e2-9611-9efe4f860b12?CorrelationId=fe6a4d24-f4d9-4c6b-afa0-40d2828ad22e&ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
use above link if needed.
Try closing excel and deleting the .EXD files from your computer.
Source: http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/296750-command-button-turned-into-image.html
While saving the Excel document, save it as "Macro enabled workbook".xlsm
In my case, the worksheet prompts a non responsive error sometimes. When I reopen it, Excel repairs it and turns all active X check boxes (sometimes drop down list and command buttons) into images. It happened many times and I had to spend a lot of my time recreating them and liking to cells.
I experienced a similar problem when Excel repaired a file; this may be similar to what's happening with the Zipped file. FormControl Buttons don't appear to have the same problems but I see you want to keep the additional functionality of the ActiveX Control.
You may be able to make use of the code I created by inserting one Form Control button that runs the Sub RepairMissingButtons() that your clients can press to restore the images to CommandButtons. This currently fixes buttons for any selected sheets, so you'd want to first identify which sheets need to be selected (or add a form control button on each sheet that needs the repair done).
You'd need to modify the Sub CreateButton() to meet your needs (currently requires hard-coding the Caption, BackColor and any other ActiveX properties that may have been lost by the button being converted to an image):
Reverse Excel ActiveX command buttons erroneously converted to images after corrupted file repair
Having this problem, activex controls sometimes change to pictures.
Many places around the internet the answer is: Use form controls, well as far as I can tell form controls don't actually do anything useful.
Even Microsoft's support site says, recommend using form controls, how can that be the answer. being able to interact with VBA is as far as I can tell the only reason to use Microsoft applications instead of free ones.
I need to create a custom control based on a datagrid. My need is to show the events of the day (I know there are other third-party controls).
I should redesign the cells in the datagridview but I do not know where to start, obviously do not want the code I understand that it is not a simple thing, but I would like to see one of your left indication on what to focus on.
Below is an image of what I would get
I'm working on a workbook in Excel 2010 that someone else created (I don't know which version they were using) with a button in it that invokes a macro. There are a lot of macros defined, so I'm right-clicking on it to find out which one it calls, but the context menu doesn't appear. Instead, when I click off, the button gets larger. I can make this happen as many times in a row as I'd like. There is another button the same worksheet that has the same context menu problem, but instead of growing, the text shrinks each time. There is another button that functions normally when I do this.
Growing buttons in Excel is a fairly common issue, with several theories about why this happens, including the use of multiple monitors or using proportional fonts. I have yet to see a definitive answer about this, but there are several workarounds that may work for you.
Delete and re-create the buttons.
Programmatically set the height and width of the buttons when the workbook is opened and when a button is clicked.
Select the button with another object or two on the sheet and group them.
Don't use them at all.
My personal choice is #4. As an alternative to buttons, I either use hyperlinks or shapes with macros assigned to them.
I think you want to enter "Design Mode" in the work book:
You should be able to right-click on the button to see what it does after that.
I have this same issue. I have two Excel workbooks with similar buttons on each. This only happens on one of them, but it happens every time I open that file.
I have found a sort of work-around. I open a blank Excel document, then I open the affected one and the buttons do not change size any more. When I open the second one, I have to drag it into the window with the already-open file. If I double-click on it, it opens in a new window and the problem remains.
I have the same issue sometimes. In my case, I could replicate it 100% on one file but it was inconsistent on an virtually identical file. I also found the size error wasn't permanent -- I could save and reopen the file to restore the button's appearance. I could also create a new window and then discard the damaged window.
For me, the button resized when I accessed the sheet's HPageBreaks collection. I was able to avoid the problem by temporarily changing the window view as follows:
ActiveWindow.View = xlPageBreakPreview
' do pagination stuff using HPageBreaks
ActiveWindow.View = xlNormalView